From the 11/15/05 Cincinnati Business Courier:

 

 

Ways to get more Ohioans in college studied

 

The Ohio Board of Regents is discussing an effort to encourage more Ohioans to earn a college degree.

 

With the goal of helping Ohioans get better-paying jobs and becoming more competitive in a high-tech environment, the Commission on Higher Education and the Economy is looking for a 30-percent increase in college students by 2015.

 

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http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2005/11/14/daily14.html

 

State effort pushes college

BY JULIE CARR SMYTH | ASSOCIATED PRESS

March 29, 2007

 

COLUMBUS - Ohio high schoolers will be barraged with fliers, advertisements, and Internet links pushing higher education as part of a new effort to bring the state out of its college graduate doldrums.

 

Gov. Ted Strickland said Wednesday the state, which ranks low in residents with college degrees, will join the national KnowHow2GO initiative that pushes college education to eighth- through 10th-graders and expand it to reach more young adults. Low-income students will be the focus of the multimedia campaign, which is funded through a $200,000 grant from the Lumina Foundation on Education.

 

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http://news.cincypost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070329/NEWS01/703290361

Mixed reviews for college program

State is trying to promote higher ed

BY JULIE CARR SMYTH | ASSOCIATED PRESS

April 2, 2007

 

COLUMBUS - A catchy new initiative, with a flashy Web site and eye-catching billboards that will say things like "diddly squat" or "nada, zip, zilch," has got its sights set on the kids that Theresa King and Tamara Bergen once were.

 

King, now 62, opted long ago not to pursue college. For her, the decision marked a rebellion from a severely structured childhood.

 

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http://news.cincypost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070402/NEWS01/704020374

They are trying to gauge how effective this program will be by interviewing a 40-something and a 60-something?!  Umm....ok.

 

Also, a more useful measure of how effective programs to get high school students to go to college would be to survey high school grads to see how many will be attending college.  There are too many other variables involved with just a bulk percent of adults with college degrees to use that as a measure of how many youths are going to college.

I think Ohio has one of the highest means of state tuition costs. I don't know. Maybe that has something to do with it.

You know what method my parents used to inspire me to go to college? Whenever we drove around the backroad squalor of southern Columbiana County, they pointed out the dilapidated shacks (and/or trailers) where squatters lived and said "if you don't go to college, you could always live in a place like this!". I say the State rounds up some charter buses and employs my parents' method :-D

I'd be all for your parents method, yet look how you turned out...

Awww, you and your S.O. look mad.  Must be the whole "Maleficient" thing fizzing out.